Plutonia 3: Going to Surface

Plutonia 3: Going to Surface (sometimes corrected as Plutonia 3: Going to the Surface) is a 32-level megawad created by Sergey Andreevich Burow (SilverMiner) as an unofficial sequel to Plutonia 2. It is known for its poor quality, involving many rookie map errors and poor map design. Plutonia 3 was uploaded to the idgames archive on July 2, 2017 and was later removed from the archive completely. An unofficial joke sequel, Plutonia 4, was made by Gothic as an April Fools joke in 2018.

There are two versions of Plutonia 3: a version compatible for Vanilla Doom, and another for ZDoom. The ZDoom version adds three episodes: "Foggy Boggy Mountain", "If You Could", and an unnamed third episode. These take you to MAP01, MAP12 and MAP21, respectively.

Custom monsters

 * Rocket zombie:A pretty strong new kind of zombie. Quickly fires a flare gun at the player. Although slower than regular zombies, it is capable of finishing off the player in a matter of seconds.


 * Plasma zombie:An extremely dangerous type of zombie. Very similar in appearance to the new protagonist. Has more hit points, runs at a very high speed and furiously shoots plasma projectiles and mini BFG projectiles in all directions.


 * Gatewatcher illusion (BOSS):In terms of abilities, this new boss is no different from the Icon of Sin. In this story, his role as an antagonist isn't defined. But the battlefield around him and the way of killing him is very difficult and cunning.

Levels
Level names from MAPINFO (which often differ from those in DEHACKED):

Soundtrack

 * MAP01: "" by
 * MAP02: "Stalker" by Lee Jackson from Duke Nukem 3D
 * MAP03: CARMID3.MID from 
 * MAP04: "CityWoman choir" by Paul Corfiatis from 2002 A Doom Odyssey
 * MAP05: "Dark Halls" by Bobby Prince
 * MAP06: "Lunar Outpost" from 
 * MAP07: "Rock the Building" by Jamie Robertson
 * MAP08: "Spirit World II" by Paul Corfiatis from 2002 A Doom Odyssey
 * MAP09:  music from MAP19 of Scythe
 * MAP10: "Stone Halls" by John Weekley from Plutonia: Revisited Community Project
 * MAP11: "Outer Darkness" by John Weekley from Plutonia: Revisited Community Project
 * MAP12: "Sewer Slide" by Stuart Rynn from Plutonia: Revisited Community Project
 * MAP13: "Holy Smoke" by
 * MAP14: "Excalibur" by Lee Jackson from Rise of the Triad
 * MAP15: "Dread" by Xaser from Plutonia: Revisited Community Project
 * MAP16:
 * MAP17: "Terrible Lie" by
 * MAP18:
 * MAP19: "End is Nigh" by Jamie Robertson
 * MAP20: "Gateway" by Stuart Rynn
 * MAP21: "Deadly Town" by James Paddock
 * MAP22: "Venus Atmospheric Lab" from Descent
 * MAP23:
 * MAP24: Remix of "Excalibur" from Rise of the Triad
 * MAP25: "Bloody Hell" by Jamie Robertson
 * MAP26: "Caverns" from 
 * MAP27: "Absence of Light" by
 * MAP28:
 * MAP29: Inverted remix of "Dark Halls"
 * MAP30: "" by
 * MAP31: "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails
 * MAP32:
 * Intermission: "Rock the Building" by Jamie Robertson
 * Title screen: Unknown music by Silverminer
 * Text screen: DOOM by Bobby Prince

Built-in demos
This WAD features three built-in demos of the same level. All require Doom II v1.9 to view them. The demos are:

Current records
The DSDA episode records for Plutonia 3: Going to Surface are:

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 28, 2022.

Trivia

 * Plutonia 3 has almost every single Plutonia asset contained in the WAD, which caused it to be banned from the idgames archive.